nyel

See also: nyél

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ńäle-. Cognates include Finnish niellä.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɲɛl]
  • (file)

Verb

nyel

  1. (transitive) to swallow

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • benyel
  • elnyel
  • félrenyel
  • lenyel
  • mellényel

References

  1. Entry #619 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
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